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Jeanne atop pyramid in Mexico

The many sides of the blue dress made by Jeanne

Kimono altered into a Western-style dress for Mrs. Woodrow (Edith) Wilson c. 1920 Yuzen dyeing and embroidery on silk. Collection Woodrow Wilson House, a property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation Washington. D.C.
Gift to Mrs. Wilson…

A detail of a boy’s kimono from 1933, showing a boy bugler with dog, surrendering Chinese soldiers and the Rising Sun flag.

Detail of silk weaves

Buddhist vestment with design of autumn grasses and butterflies (made from a Noh costume). Silk and metallic threads in supplementary weft-patterned twill weave silk

Paisley pattern from Kashmir

Evening coat, 1913-1919, silk metallic thread

Yōshū (Toyohara) Chikanobu, sewing of Western clothes for high ranking ladies (Empress Shōkun promoting Western modes of dress), 1887, trytych of polychrome woodblock prints, ink and color on paper